PODCAST: Making Gender Great Again?
Jenny Lorentzen (to the left) is hosting this episode of The World Stage. She was joined by Dag Nylander and Priscyll Anctil Avoine.
In 2016 in Havana, the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the FARC-EP guerilla, after several years of first secret, and then official, negotiations. The Havana talks and peace agreement have been acclaimed as the most gender inclusive in history.
Eight years later, what is happening with the implementation of the agreement, and what are women’s roles in peace processes in Colombia today?
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Insights from the mediator
In this episode of The World Stage, NUPI research fellow Jenny Lorentzen sits down with Priscyll Anctil Avoine, researcher in Feminist Security Studies at the Swedish Defence University, and Dag Nylander, NOREF director and former mediator to the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP.
Having researched the political participation of women ex-combatants in armed conflict and peace processes in Colombia for the last 10 years, Avoine brings to the conversation the perspective of the women ex-combattants and colombian activists.
Nylander shares insights from his direct experience in the negotiations. Together, they shed light on the role of gender and women’s involvement in the Havana talks, the challenges related to implementing the 2016 agreement, as well as what lessons were learned in the Havana process that can be applied to the current negotiations with the ELN and future peace processes in Colombia.